Sam Ath

Sam Ath, age 45, buys and sells vegetable. She has been married since 1990 and has one daughter who is in university.

Her husband is a chef for weddings. She lives with her elderly mother in a village about twenty kilometers from Phnom Penh City.

Sam Ath is requesting a loan to build a concrete brick room under her wooden house. With a concrete brick room that she will build with money from the loan, it will be a good place for Sam Ath to keep things.

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About MAXIMA

MAXIMA Mikroheranhvatho is a Cambodian microfinance institution founded in 2000 to help low-income rural and urban people and small- to medium-sized businesses (SMEs) access financial services. Sustainable access to credit helps to create jobs and enables business owners improve their living conditions, educate their children, provide health care to their families, and more. It also enables the rural poor to remain at home with their families, rather than moving to city centers in search of employment.

About Housing Loans

Many poor families cannot afford housing that meets their needs. When you make a housing loan on Kiva, you give people access to flexible capital to obtain or improve their homes. Better housing means better health, sanitation, and even educational outcomes for children. A house can also be much more for entrepreneurs who run businesses out of their homes. In this way, housing and small business loans on Kiva share a common purpose: to alleviate poverty and enable families to enjoy more stable lives.